2 Kings 8 in the early church

[LXX: 4 Kingdoms; Vulgate: 4 Kings]

9 passages quote, allude to, or echo 2 Kings 8, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 1 · 8 · 17 · 18 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27

2 Kings 8:1

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Kgs 8:1	Question 115, section 39 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–384

2 Kings 8:8

So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Kgs 8:8–9	Apostolic Constitutions 4.7.2 · Anonymous	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 380

2 Kings 8:17

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Kgs 8:17	Miscellanies 1.21.115 · Clement of Alexandria	allusion, high confidence	ca. 198–203
2 Kgs 8:17	Preparation for the Gospel 10.14.4 · Eusebius of Caesarea	allusion, high confidence	ca. 313–324

2 Kings 8:18

And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Kgs 8:18	Question 85, section 1 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–384

2 Kings 8:24

And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Kgs 8:24	Commentary on Romans 1.5 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)

2 Kings 8:25

In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Kgs 8:25–27	Commentary on Matthew 1 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 353–355

2 Kings 8:26

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Kgs 8:26	Preparation for the Gospel 10.14.4 · Eusebius of Caesarea	allusion, high confidence	ca. 313–324

2 Kings 8:27

And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
BSB

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Kgs 8:27	Question 85, section 1 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–384